I took a challenge of running MediaWiki with Visual Editor extension on openSUSE 13.1 x64. Task sounds maybe easy, but turned out to be little madness, so once I got this working I think it might be nice to share my steps.

Operating system has been deployed from ISO image: openSUSE-13.1-NET-x86_64.iso.

Installing Node.js

Basically Node.js package which is included in distro doesn’t work properly. For that reason first step is to add new repository for Node.js: